Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture

Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821368818

The good practice guidelines - which form the basis of an interactive policymaker's tool kit included on a CD accompanying the book - relate not only to the more focused problem of encouraging increased fertilizer use by farmers, but also to the broader challenge of creating the type of enabling environment that is needed to support the emergence of efficient, dynamic and commercially viable fertilizer marketing systems."--Jacket.

Fertilizer Application on Crop Yield

Fertilizer Application on Crop Yield
Author: Jagadish Timsina
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3038976547

Fertilizer application can increase crop yields and improve global food security, and thus has the potential to eliminate hunger and poverty. However, excessive amounts of fertilizer application can contribute to groundwater pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, eutrophication, deposition and disruptions to natural ecosystems, and soil acidification over time. Small farmers in many countries think inorganic fertilizers are expensive and degrade soils, and thus policymakers want to promote organic instead of inorganic fertilizers. To develop practical fertilizer recommendations for farmers, yield responses to applied fertilizers from inorganic and organic sources, indigenous nutrient supply from soil, and nutrient use efficiency require consideration. There is a lack of sufficient scientific understanding regarding the need and benefit of integrated nutrient management (i.e., judicious use of inorganic and organic sources of nutrients) to meet the nutrient demand of high-yielding crops, increase yields and profits, and reduce soil and environmental degradation. Inadequate knowledge has constrained efforts to develop precision nutrient management recommendations that aim to rationalize input costs, increase yields and profits, and reduce environmental externalities. This Special Issue of the journal provided some evidence of the usefulness of integrated nutrient management to sustain soil resources and supply nutrients to crops grown with major cereal and legume crops in some developing countries.

Crop Production Levels and Fertilizer Use

Crop Production Levels and Fertilizer Use
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1981
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Fertilizer in crop production; Relationship between crop production, crop yield and fertilizer use; Yield response to fertilizer; Economics of fertilizer use; Goverment programmes and policies affecting fertilizer use.

Fertilizer Situation

Fertilizer Situation
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1974
Genre: Fertilizer industry
ISBN: